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A swimming coach advised her to do track because there were already several top swimmers in the Netherlands at that time ( such as Rie Mastenbroek ), and she would have a better chance to qualify for the Olympics in a track event.
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* Wendy Boglioli, a former Olympic swimmer and swimming coach at Yale University, who later became an executive and motivational speaker.
David Armbruster, swimming coach at the University of Iowa, researched the breaststroke, especially considering the problem of drag due to the underwater recovery.
1928 was the start of the scientific study of swimming by David Armbruster, coach at the University of Iowa, who filmed swimmers from underwater.
She grew up riding horses, studying dance, practicing swimming with her AAU coach before and after school.
Her best friend is her father's assistant, Mi ( Michael ) Taylor, whose father – as Mrs. Brown's swimming coach – helped her cross the channel.
The women won five consecutive championships from 2001 – 2005. In 2005, after 37 years as head coach, Coach Bill Powell became an assistant coach, and holds record for being the second winningest coach in men's swimming in NCAA dual meet history.
Doug Frost ( born on 11 November 1943 in Orange, New South Wales ) is an Australian swimming coach, best known as the coach of Ian Thorpe.
In May 2005, he was appointed the head coach of the swimming program at the Australian Institute of Sport.
He previously was head women's swimming coach at the University of Texas, where his teams won five consecutive NCAA titles ( 1984 – 88 ).
swimming and advised
** Capital expenditures that are advised by a physician, where the facility is used primarily by the patient alone and the expense is reasonable ( e. g. a swimming pool for someone with degenerative spinal disorder, an elevator for someone with heart disease )
The Fort provides easy access to the beach, ( although swimming is not advised in the fast-flowing channel ) and excellent views of the Solent, Hurst Castle, and passing shipping.
The " Lempa " river is a good place for swimming, but its currents are very strong and dangerous, so extreme care is advised.
The manager of the hotel where everyone was housed advised Preminger mixed bathing would not be permitted in the swimming pools, but grudgingly agreed to designate one " interracial " when the director threatened to vacate the premises and not pay the bill.
swimming and her
The water in Thor's big swimming pool had been covered with a blanket of thick, foamy soapsuds -- fashioned, of course, from zing -- Joyce had dived from the board into the pool, then swirled and cavorted in her luxurious `` bath '' while cameras rolled.
She daubed at her swimming eyes with a lacy handkerchief and said with obvious emotion: `` That poor boy!!
Show her the new swimming pool and she would say, slapping her ankle, `` I suppose this must be where you breed your gigantic mosquitoes ''.
Once when she asked why he never went swimming and he answered, `` Don't feel like it '', he was tempted to tell her about being scared.
In addition to popularizing the bikini swimming suit, Bardot has also been credited with popularizing the city of St. Tropez and the town of Armação dos Búzios in Brazil, which she visited in 1964 with her boyfriend at the time, Brazilian musician Bob Zagury.
In one incident filmed near the Farallon Islands in October 1997, a female killed a long great white shark, apparently after swimming with it upside-down in her mouth and inducing tonic immobility in it.
During her upbringing, Dagmar, together with her sister Alexandra, was given swimming lessons by the Swedish pioneer of swimming for women, Nancy Edberg ; she would later welcome Edberg to Russia, where she came on royal scholarship to hold swimming lessons for women.
" This was the first mentioning of the term synchronized swimming, although Curtis still used the term rhythmic swimming in her book, Rhythmic Swimming: A Source Book of Synchronized Swimming and Water Pageantry ( Minneapolis: Burgess Publishing Co., 1936 ).
Water treading is an aspect of swimming that involves a swimmer staying in a vertical position in the water while keeping his or her head above the surface of the water.
* In the collection of short stories and essays by Lafcadio Hearn, In Ghostly Japan, the author is told the popular story of a girl that swims to her lover guided by a lantern, and he comments on the similarities with the western story: "—" So ," I said to myself, " in the Far East, it is poor Hero that does the swimming.
Upon their release, the Girl pushes him into his enormous swimming pool for deceiving her about his true identity.
Born in Rotterdam, Zuid-Holland, she started swimming under the coaching of " Ma " Braun, who had coached her daughter to an Olympic gold medal in 1928.
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